Bio

Molina has composed, performed, recorded, mixed, and designed sound for theatre, video, film, dance, performance art, radio, television, and multimedia productions for the past 18 years. Recently he has been inventing and building instruments from salvaged materials. These instruments become part of interactive, multimedia installations displayed at galleries and festivals.

He has worked with numerous bay area theatre companies, performing arts venues, and educational institutes, large and small, as well as several regional companies and institutes through out the U.S.

Molina presented his first Gallery solo exhibit Transience: The Work of David Molina, at Asterisk Gallery SF (2013). It featured several instruments built by Molina, including Rusting Souls a restored and modified Cimbalom, as well as A Dividing Line: American Ashes, a 14 channel speaker installation about immigration, xenophobia, the Mexican/U.S.A. border, and the lives that cross it, claim to protect it, or are separated by it.

He was curator and producer, of Color + Form + Freqeuncy = Memory and Dreams (2012), a multimedia concert at PAI, featuring electronic musician and video artist Mickey Tachibana, experimental film maker Anna Geyer, instrument builder Garrett La Fever, and Molina as composer and live musician.

He collaborated with La Fever and Tachibana on Memory Web, an original instrument and interactive sound/video installation presented at SOMARTS, SF Fine Arts Fair, PAI, and Vessel Gallery.

He often collaborates with theatre director Roberto Varea and performance artist Violeta Luna, both with which Molina’s work has toured nationally and internationally.

Installations:Utopia/Nightmare: The American Dream with Victor Cartagena at MACLA;Homenaje a Roque Dalton with Cartagena at Oakland Museum;
works by Cause Collective at Oakland Museum Of California and Sundance Film Festival. Homage to Musee Mecanique with Susie Valdez at MCCLA.

Molina recently produced and engineering Behind the Dream: The Speech that Transformed a Nation, an audiobook read and written by Dr Clarence B Jones, MLK’s personal lawyer, co-speech writer, and friend.

He and Chris Webb won a 2009 L.A. Ovation Award for their music and sound design to Lydia at CTG’s Mark Taper Forum, and which was also produced at Yale Rep.

His in the bands Earthlike and Impuritan. His music and solo projects Ghosts and Strings and Transient are available on Resting Bell (Berlin), Dorog Records (Peru), Black Note Music (USA), Distant Spore (USA) or through his own D.I.Y. releases.